Information about
David McGaughey’s descendants in history of Franklin Township,
Indiana

David McGaughey

David
McGaughey, born in North Ireland of Scottish stock and descended from
Scotch Coventers, was one of the first settlers in Hanilloe County,
Ohio, married Miss Lytle and they had five daughters and four sons:
Elizabeth Porter, Sallie, Katherine Woodruff, Mary Powers, and Dr.
David McGaughey, of Morristown, Samuel, George, and Robert Lytle McGaughey.
He was one of the first settlers in Hamilton County, Ohio, along with
Nicholas Longworth and Major James Mann and held offices in Columbia
Township. He was trustee in 1803 and township clerk in 1804-1808. Nicholas
Longworth held office about the same time. They were also justices.

There
is a rumor that ‘Old Nick’, or so he was called,
fenced off some of the McGaughey’s ground, and it was finally
outlawed by time although the family had tried to get David McGaughey
to sign some papers which he neglected. Some of the stated meetings
were held at David McGaughey’s home and business of township
transacted there. Lyman Beecher along with his young son, Henry Ward,
were very good friends and often visited in the McGaughey home. The
Kempers were also included in their friends. The old home was located
between Allendale and Maderia (now a part of Cincinnati, Ohio). The
old neighborhood changed over the years and became the place of millionaires.
The old pastures became golflinks and Country Club grounds.

In
later years Clara McGaughey Williamson and Ruth Brown Adams visited
their
cousin, Isabelle McIntosh, and saw the old homeplace in the distance,
as it was off the road at that time. The hilly country was beautiful
and many lovely homes were being built. It is thought that David
McGaughey was an Aide-de-Camp and that the battle of Monmouth was fought
on the
Lytle farm which was his wife’s maiden name. He was buried
in the cemetery of the Presbyterian Church at Pleasant Ridge, Ohio,
in
an unmarked grave and his wife is buried at Lebanon, Ohio.

The
Pictorial Cincinnati Enquirer dated March 4, 1951, shows a picture
of the
church and cemetery on Montgomery Road and underneath is written
these words.
Legend says ‘George Washington’s bodyguard in there’.
The Historian of the church gave this information in 1947. She
found no record of David McGaughey, but in one of the early published
histories
she found these words. ‘The grave of an unknown Revolutionary
soldier’ supposed to be an Aide-de-Camp
of General Washington, this grave being close to the front door of the
church. The stone was in place until 1880 or there abouts when
it disappeared. The
Enquirer stated that Pleasant Ridge is attractive and a pleasant place
to live.

Robert
Lytle McGaughey

Robert
Lytle McGaughey (son of David) was born January 13, 1794 and married
Mary Ann Clark (daughter of Ezekiel Clark), who was born April 1, 1807.
They were married at Indian Hill, Ohio, a picturesque and a place of
fine view. Mary Ann as a bride of 16 o 17 years of age was considered
one of the prettiest girls on the ‘Hills’. they moved to
a farm in Franklin county, Indiana, near Mt. Carmel, which is near
Brookville, Indiana. They had twelve children, 6 boys and 6 girls:
David, born in 1825, lived in Iowa (perhaps a judge there); Aaron,
born in 1826; Samuel, born in 1828; Robert Lytle Jr., born in 1835;
Moses, a bachelor; John, married Mamie Lowes, his children were Carl,
Clara, John Edward and Robert; Susan, Mary Ann, Jeanne, Elmira, Rebecca,
and Marilda, born in 1843, mother of Harry Brown, Edward Brown, Frank
Brown, and the youngest, Ruth Brown Adams.

They
moved to Franklin Township, Marion county, Indiana, about 1857 when
Marilda was about 14 years
old. She remembered the awful corduroy roads in comparison
to the Brookville Pike. There were many friends in Brookville and Marilda’s
father would hitch two horses to their carriage and drive to the grandfather’s
home in Ohio from Brookville, Indiana.

Robert
Lytle McGaughey and his wife are buried in the cemetery across the
road from the New Bethel Baptist church.
In the Lowell Heritage book of Warren
Township,
Marion County, it states that Lytle McGaughey was the last teacher to teach
in the Montague School (built in 1840) in the year of 1855.

Robert
Lytle McGaughey Jr., Moses, and John owned land on both sides of the
Michigan
Road to the town of New Bethel.

John
McGaughey married Mamie Lowes. They owned and lived in the house formerly
called the ‘Smithers
Tavern’. They had three sons and one daughter,
Dr. Carl McGaughey, who married Helen Downey from Greenfield, Indiana,
John E. McGaughey (Ned) who married Mary Bailey from Edinburgh, Indiana,
Clara,who
married Frank Williamson from Ohio, and Robert who married Margaret
from Framingham of Boston, Massachusetts. At the time of John’s
death he was County commissioner in Indianapolis and lived in Irvington.
McGaughey road between Southeastern
(Michigan Road) and Post road was named for this family.

October,
1869, Marilda McGaughey married Dr. Samuel Brown of New Bethel
and had three sons; Harry Brown, Frank Brown, Dr. Edward Brown, and
Ruth Brown
who married Dr. Daniel Adams. Dr. Dan and Ruth had two children,
George and Mary. Mary Adams lives in Florida and George lives in Florida
and
spends some time on his farm on the Thompson Road in Franklin Township.
You will
read more
about this family in another part of the book in the biography of
The Adams Family and the Brown Family.

Dr.
Samuel McGaughey was born July 22, 1828, married Mary A. Morgan in
1852, and had two sons, Robert
and Otto Livingston. In 1858 he
married Mary S.
Boal and they had four daughters: Rachel who married John Tomlinson,
Mellie (deceased),
Elizabeth (deceased), Jennie who married Rev. Sam Tomlinson, and
one son, Dr Samuel, who married Martha Elliot. Jennie and Rev.
Sam Tomlinson
had
two daughters,
Jennie and Mary and one son, Sam. Their daughter, Mary, was married
to
Sam Krebs. She will long be remembered for her acting under the
stage name of
Marjorie Main in the Ma and Pa Kettle series. Susan married and
was the mother of Mrs.
Carrie Handy. Rebecca married William Morrow and had two sons,
Walter and Clifford Morrow.

Dr.
Samuel McGaughey and his wife, Martha, had three children: John (deceased),
William, and mary Jane. William
McGaughey is Senior
Vice
President of
N.A.M. (National Association of Manufacturers). Mary Jane married
E.A. McIlwain
and has two sons: Stephen Elliot, born September 27, 1944, and
William John whose
birth day is September 9, 1953. Mary Jane’s biography is
included in the book Indiana Lives: Hawkins and McClarren. Her
son, Stephen E. McIlwain’s
biography is included in the book Outstanding Men of America
written in 1974. William is studying to become a lawyer.

Robert
Lytle McGaughey, Jr. lived on the farm on the west side
of the Michigan Road from the Franklin road to the edge of
New Bethel.
The
house was and
is now located at the edge of Wanamaker on Clark Drive. He
was a member of the
New Bethel Baptist church and was a clerk in the church from
1873-1876, He married and had one son, John O. McGaughey, born
October 24,
1867. John married
Mary Sterling January 7, 1891. They had two sons, Robert L.
McGaughey who now lives in Beech Grove, Indiana and Charles who died
when
he was a few
months
old.

John
married a second time to Julia Tomlinson. They lived on the farm at
the corner of Thompson Road and Southeastern
in Franklin
Township.
He
later sold the farm and lived in Wanamaker until his death.
The farm is now owned
by Mr. and Mrs. Herman Reasoner. John and Julia were members
of the New Bethel Baptist church and are buried in the Orchard
Hill
Cemetery
back
of the New
Bethel Baptist church.

(pp
85-87)

Acton’s
Marjorie Main

When
Roberta Crisler Fraley of Acton was in Franklin Township High School,
she began keeping a scrap book .... Among the pages of her scrap book
are many clippings about Marjorie Main, a person very special to Roberta,
and to residents of Acton who were proud of the fact that a home-town
girl made it in Hollywood. Roberta first learned that the actress was
from Acton when she read an article about her in the Screen Guide Magazine
for January, 1941. (The whole issue of the magazine is included in
one scrap book.) A few months, however, Roberta saw an article, publicity
for her picture with Wallace Beery, “Barnacle Bill”, the
showing at Loew’s, which described Marjorie Main as ‘Fairland’s
Gift to Movies.’

To
settle the matter, Roberta wrote her a letter (on August 8, 1941.)
Marjorie Main’s note in answer, postmarked
Los Angeles August 21, 1941, was brief but personal:

“Dear
Miss Crisler,

Your
letter just received. Yes, I was born on a farm near Acton. My grandfather,
Dr. Samuel McGauhey, brought me into the world.
He was a doctor who lived
in Acton.

Please
give my best regards to all of your friends.

Sincerely
yours,

Marjorie
Main "

p.161

the
Adams family

“Dr. Dan Adams married Ruth Brown, daughter of Dr. Samuel and Marilda
McGaughey Brown. Ruth was born October 24, 1883, and died December 1976 in Fort
Myers, Florida. Dr. Dan and she had two children, Mary Elizabeth and George Edward.
Mary Elizabeth Adams was born January 13, 1913, in Beech Grove. Mary moved to
Fort Myers in 1960 and became the first Executive Director of the Lee County
Mental Health Association... George E. Adams was born December 3, 1914. He married
Leah Geffs ... George and Leah are realtors in Fort Myers.” (See letter
from Ruth B. Adams to William McGaughey, Sr. dated June 7, 1961.)

p.
30

Update
March 2010: Mary E. Adams died several years ago. She was the family
historian. George E. Adams
is still alive but living in a nursing home. George’s son, Dan Adams, and
his wife Kathy now run the George E. Adams real-estate agency in Fort Myers.
Their daughter was getting married this weekend, perhaps on March 27th.

Source:
From “Historic
Treasures of Franklin Township, Marion County, Indiana” published by the
Franklin Township Historical Society in 1978. Its president, Velma Ruede, lived
in Fairland, Indiana. I received a copy in 1988.